The Online Marathon on Universal Educational Materials for Distance and Blended Learning of Children with Special Educational Needs Is Over

On 2 December, we held the last webinar of the online marathon «Universal Educational Materials for Distance and Blended Learning of Children with Special Educational Needs», launched on 26 October. The marathon program was implemented by the Learning Together project in cooperation with the Institute of Education Content Modernization of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

The online marathon will help adapt and modify the content of academic subjects (integrated courses), textbooks and learning materials, in particular for children with special educational needs (SEN), and provide quality education to all children, including children with SEN.

More than 3,000 participants took part in the marathon, including teachers who work with children with SEN, in particular in the context of inclusive education, specialists (consultants) of Inclusive Resource Centres, consultants of Teacher Professional Development Centres as well as authors, editors, publishers and designers of learning materials.

The participants who had successfully completed the online marathon received relevant certificates. 

Also, during the marathon, the experts introduced the participants to the experience of Finnish schools in adapting and modifying academic subjects (integrated courses), learning materials, textbooks, including the ones designed for students with SEN.

You can watch video recordings of online marathon webinars on the YouTube channel of the Learning Together project at this link. Read the detailed program of the online marathon here.

Here’s what the participants say about our online marathon.

«During this hard time for the whole country, you have done wonderful and productive work. We are grateful to your team for this!»

«It has been meaningful, clear and understandable. I am sure that everyone who works with children with SEN, in particular parents of such children, should watch the entire course of the marathon. It is important! After all, the key thing is the interaction between all members of the team that supports such children!»

«I am sincerely grateful for such a rich and interesting marathon program. I have got a lot of knowledge and resources to work with.»

«Colleagues’ practice and experience is one of the most valuable drivers not only in pedagogy, but also in other areas. This course has exactly such focus – practical. It makes participants interested. It is important for the teacher to achieve the lesson objective. As a listener, I have also achieved my objective! Many thanks to the speakers for this!»

«I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in the course in a convenient format. I have learned a lot of interesting things for myself. Thank you to the developers, moderators, speakers and everyone who participated in the implementation of this project. Looking forward to the next course on efficient education of children with SEN.»